Chords for ALLEY CAT (How to play on Guitar)

_ Okay, this is an arrangement of Alley Cat.
I did back in 1980.
I was 17 years old and had to do it for the Illinois Guitar League.
I got second place for that and [N] it's ultimate bass and it was kind of my first introduction to the Chet Atkins style without really knowing it.
But _ anyway, here goes.
I'll play it and then I'll break it down a little bit for you.
_ [C] _ [Gbm] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
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[E] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
Okay, I'm going to break down Alley Cat for you the best I can here.
I'll start you with a little slide up from C to C sharp, [Eb] getting into an A [Am] form.
_ [A] _ _ _ A, _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [F] but [A] keeping the C [N] sharp in there and ultimate bass.
_ _ [A]
A, E, [A] _ _ [E] okay that goes on.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ Bar, [E] what do you say?
[Db] _ _
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Barrier. _
_ _ [Em] There you get kind of going into [F] an E7.
And [E] _ _ _ _
then _ [E] _ play the melody on top there.
[Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [E] _
[Dm] Still [D] off the B7.
_ [B] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [A] Back to A, [Em] okay and that repeats.
Then it goes up to [A] A7 [E] and then a [Bm] D6. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [D] _
_ A D, _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ repeat [A] there.
_ _ _ _ C sharp, B.
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[Db] B flat [Bb] into B _ [B] and _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ then it's kind of outlined. _
7.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] Okay, you know that.
[N] I'm going to go ahead and show you the right hand now.
_ Okay, this is the right hand, let's go and see it.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [D] _
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_ _ Okay, there you go.
[Gb] Oh, [Ab] okay, I got a story for you about the Illinois Guitar League contest.
This song, Alley Cat.
The Illinois Guitar [Em] League contest, the judges required the sheet music.
So, it was one [G] hour before I was ready to go on and play [N] before this judge
that I realized I had forgotten the [Gm] sheet music.
That was, [N] home was 80 miles away.
_ So, I had to hurry up and write out all the sheet music _ within that one hour.
I mean, it was alternate bass and this had to be notation.
The alternate bass, the rhythm, the lead, all at the same time.
It all had to be written out and handed in to the judge.
We being teenagers, 16 and 17 years old,
I mean, we were goofing around most of the day in the dormitory
and _ we should have been doing more constructive things.
But, good thing at least when I opened up my guitar case
[D] to start practicing a little bit [B]
before the [C] time I was to go on,
[G] I had realized, oh my God, I cannot find my sheet music.
It wasn't anywhere.
So, it was rather [N] hectic and chaotic and it was scary.
I didn't know if I was going to mess up on the notation,
but I got it done right, handed it in to the judge,
and there was no problem with that.
But, it was quite the experience, so never forget your sheet music.
_ Take care. _
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